Part IX Miscellaneous and General

Summonses and other documents

133 Proof of service of summonses etc.

1

Where any summons or other process issued from F2the county court is served by an officer of F3the court , the service may be proved by a certificate in a prescribed form F1. . . showing the fact and mode of the service.

C12

Any officer of F3the court wilfully and corruptly giving a false certificate under subsection (1) in respect of the service of a summons or other process shall be guilty of an offence and, on conviction thereof, shall be removed from office and shall be liable—

a

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years; or

b

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both such imprisonment and fine.